ASPEN — After high-fiving his pals, the first thing skier Nick Goepper did after winning X Games gold on the slopestyle course Sunday was call his mom.

She gushed, "Remember when you were really young and you wanted to win the X Games?" said the 18-year-old who grew up skiing 400-vertical feet at Indiana's Perfect North Slopes ski area. "She said 'I thought that was so far off, I never thought it would happen.'"

On Sunday, Goepper's flawless double-corked spins in both directions, lengthy grabs and graceful landings earned him his second consecutive slopestyle medal and his first X gold.

"It feels absolutely amazing. I've been dreaming of this moment since I was little," said Goepper, whose four double-cork spins at last year's X Games propelled him into the upper realms of slopestyle skiing. "It's just the best day of my life."

Spectator injured by snowmobile

Aussie motocross trickster Jackson Strong — with only four hours practice on a snowmobile — tried a backflip stunt he calls "The Jet" in Sunday night's snowmobile best trick contest.

The 21-year-old missed his grab at the peak of his air, scrambling in the air before crashing alongside the machine. The sled strangely continued to throttle, flying through the netting and injuring teenager Trent Wittwer, who is one of the top junior snowmobile racers in the country. The 13-year-old Wittwer was treated on scene for pain in his right knee and released to his family.

It was not clear if he was hurt getting out of the way or was hit by the runaway sled.

Two slopestyle skiers hurt in crashes at Winter X

Two female skiers had to be taken off the slopestyle course by sled after crashes that sent them to the hospital.

New Zealand's Rose Battersby, 19, injured her lower back during a practice run, hitting the landing square on her back then sliding down into the fencing. She has been diagnosed with fracture in her lumbar and has been transferred to Denver.

Ashley Battersby (no relation) of Chicago was carted off the course after injuring her left knee on the final jump of her final run. The 25-year-old's leg seemed to buckle as she landed then she fell and slid into the fencing.

Fog on the slopestyle course lifted just before the men's finals. While Saturday's snowboard slopestyle showdown saw all three winners throwing triples, no skiers threw the triple-backflipping tricks on Sunday. They did for Saturday night's big air contest though.

Harlaut second behind Goepper

Sweden's Henrik Harlaut, the dreadlocked skier who won Saturday's big air ski contest — with the most style-drenched spins in X Games big air history — spinning a dizzying 1620 degrees while flipping three times on Sunday displayed the same fun style, earning slopestyle silver.

Harlaut again threw big tricks led with his signature "nose butter," a move that starts his spinning while on the jump, pressing his tips into the lip before spinning 1260 degrees while flipping twice.

"The secret to the nose butter is a lot of days of skiing. I ski every day," he said, noting that the nose butter trick is "risky and scary" because digging in ski tails during the early rotation on the jump will cause a spectacular crash. "Do it 100 percent or you will eat" it.

Britain's Woods third

On a day when the top five slopestyle finalists finished with scores higher than 90 points, Great Britain's James Woods -- the top qualifier heading into Sunday's finals -- took third with a typically golden 92 points.

The 21-year-old said watching Goepper's 94-point run only fueled his performance on Sunday.

"Everyone was coming out the gates straight away smashing it," said England's best hope for slopestyle gold in the Sochi Winter Games next year. "We are all skiers, we are all together in this, and it's magic to see that."

Women's ski slopestyle

The women's ski slopestyle started just after the men, and Norwegian 17-year-old Tiril Sjastad Christiansen became the youngest female to win X Games gold, beating out three-time defending champion Kaya Turski. Turisk fell on her first two runs, then had to wait 35 minutes for her final run as Ashley Battersby had to be taken off the course.

Hibbert gets No. 6

Snowmobiler Tucker Hibbert became the first X Games athlete to record a six-peat, winning the snocross race for the sixth consecutive time. His main competition, Levi LaVallee, did not race Sunday after sustaining a shoulder injury in practice Sunday morning. LaVallee had won two golds this week after missing the past two X Games to recover from training injuries.

Shaun White is going for his six-peat Sunday night in the snowboard superpipe, which begins at 7:45 p.m.

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